The chemist that I decided to pick is Robert B . Woodward . He was born in Boston on April 10th , 1917 . He was the only child of Margaret Burns and Arthur Woodward . His father later on died when he was only thirty-three on October 1918 . Woodward got attached to the chemistry world at a very young age . Robert studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology which is located in Massachusetts on Cambridge Street . He was excluded for inattention to formal studies towards the end of the fall term in 1934 .He later on decided to re-enroll in the fall term of 1935 . His degrees that he took were degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1936 and also Doctor of Philosophy in 1937 . He later on also studied at Harvard university and decided to study